Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-09-10
MoRt DNEss.
Money in the Treasury Allison
and Halne-M. n. Day.

and Halne-M. 81. Day.
Special Correspondence of the IxrEE-ocEAS.I
WAsH1Sa1pN IN, Sept. o. The post
Office department has the greatest
scandal that has been known here
for some time In fact there are several
of them brewing. The chief Of divis-
ion has a ladF' assistant who is pretty
aud bright, ard he has been sweet on
her. He has written compromising let
tiers, and she has written equally affec-
tionate notes. to him. The dear little
missives haye been exposed to the vul-
gar gaze of others and the secret is out.
The chief is d married man, and has a
baby, as well as a mother-ln-law. He
will probably swear that his mother-in
law made life miserable for HIM, and he
had to seek consolation away from home.
But then it will be in order for the moth
e%r-in-law to stand up and be counted.
If she will tell her story. and will relate
the lndigni:ies which she has suffered at
the hands of the aforesaid chief, tho
public pulse will heat as fast as All cleo
ton day fighters fist. Poor old mother
in-law. She has born a great deal III
silence.
The public debt has not been decreased
very much during the past month. The
pension list is so large that it takes a
strong griF upon the surplus revenues
OF the couatry, and milks them almost
dry. Still there is an income of more
than a million dollars a day, from tho
tariff and internal revenue. The daily
statements made at the treasury depart
ment have a tendency to make ones
mouth water, and ones heart palpitate.
Think of it, over Il million 4 day, rum
ming into tho Golfers of this great repuh-
lie. Therea are oyer FIVE hundred mill
ions Of dollars lying idlsin the treasury.
| was up there u few days ago to look ut
the stuff. There it was, all safe and
sound, but out ofreach. Tho now vaults
are nearly completed. The money is
coming III SO fast that there is not room
to store it. Just imagine such a state of
affairs ut your house, gentle eader I'M
imagine the money blowing in. in u biz
zard, through your doors, so fast and SO
plentiful that you would have to dig new
cellars in order to hold it all. That is
what is going on here every day. 1t
makes II feel enyious, like Maud Null
Ter, when she sighed:
All, me,
That l the Judges bride might be-:
Id dress my msther 50 grand AMI gay,
And the baby should have II new toy each day"
And so it would be with US, each Of us,
ii wo had such enormous incomes. Blu,
the fact aS it exists causes sober retlec.
tons. Why is all this surplus in tho
treasury: Why are over 500, 900, ON
thus boarded up, and Withdrawn from
the channelsi Simply and solely, gen.
tleman, because the law makers at the
national capitol, are incompetent to dea
with the question. They are politically
nincolnpoops n care more for the sue,
cess Of parties and individuals, than the,
Il crOwding @! seltishness into tho narrow
walls of tho house Of representatives
that there is little room for patriotism.>
The general impression here, among
politicians, dnring the past week, seem,
to be that the Allison boom is grow
ing, while the Blaine boom is dying
Cleveland is sure of his denomination
Sherman has not yet pulled the top clea
otf'n his BARI, but when he does Their,
will he an Immediate rise in Sherman
stock. He is able to buy Il big boom
L IL SOilliIluI ulli ~, Will nc. lIlcN SiN
that Allison either cannot or will no
put up" for his boom. Probability is
the man has no money for booms. Ill
is solid enough in character and in abil
ity to get along without Hessian friends
Besides q purchased boomer can Away
be bought out, when he is needed bv tn
other side.
There is an enterprisiny young ma
here who has not lived in Dakota TO
1 cor az st v,nn so, trrt t,n 4 .
be a thoroughbred old timer from tn,
Jim Valley. He is pretty we'll known
among newspaper men of the territory
as we'll as in the etlctc east. lie la
written Il great deal for territorial pa
pers, and is now corresponding for til
best of them, rs we'll as for another pa
per outside Of Dakota, which takes
lively interest in Dakota mel and meas
ures. But the young man is ambition
to do more. Ho believes that he car
serve himself best by serving his friend
most. Hence. he contemplates the es
Enlistment, at The National Capital, q
a newspaper which shall be named tn
Territorial Register. That is to say, H.
will establish and managea paper dc
voted entirely to the interests Of the ter
ritOries, including the District or Colum
bia, which is territory OF course. Al
of his subscription list, or nearly all &
it, must be in the far OIL territories.
is going Il long way from home for pat
ronage; but he believes that such a week
ly paper, strictly devoted to the interest
Of enterprisins western people, will b
we'll patronized. The young man i
in support of his theory. We will Sc
what will come Oft. The idea is unique
but so is the fellow who conceived it.
Hon. NJ. II. Day has changed frol
suddenly. 1t is IL matter OF history
written and ilnwritten, that he was vit
lently opposed to Cleveland less than
year ago, less than six months ago. II
was never careful to disguise that fac
But he has been wise enough to soc til:
the procession is moving on. and h
must get onto the Cleveland train or ge
When he was here last week he was out
spoken in his praises for the presiden,
and freely expressed his belief thu
Grover will be renominated and also re
elected. SOw the conundrulm arise:
was Day right in thus turning abol
face and marching into the camp of til
enemy? There has been a great do;
= said concerning it recently. People cor
denim him, and some o. them praise hin
, The fact is, Day was in a ticklish plac
He had to either stay outside OF Den
Republican party; or else he had I
swallow his medicine and endorse Gro
yer. He wisely chose the latter cours'
Day cannot be a Republican. He car
not get along without being Il workin
Democrat. He was compelled to cate
on. 1t was a ground hog case. Beside.
there were persons in the Democrat
party who were anxious to see hil
break his neck by fighting the presiden
Day would haye carried down his frienG
with him if he had sunk; and he woul
not do that. l belieyet that is the strong
est reason that can be given for h
change of base and front. The fact il